The Economist, February 25, 2010 Editorial
http://www.economist.com/world/united-states/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15580530&fsrc=rss
Barry Krisberg at Berkeley’s law school says that the guards “have priced themselves out of the market.” They can’t push for even tougher laws, he says, at a time when prisons are so overcrowded that a federal court is threatening mandatory inmate releases. And they can’t demand even more generous benefits during a fiscal catastrophe. The iron triangle—union, prison builders and Republican lawmakers—is coming apart, he thinks.